<p>The largest single attack of the day was a car bombing that killed at least 19 people in Baghdad's al-Mansour neighbourhood, in the southwest of the capital.<br /><br />Iraqi military sources said that 58 people were injured in that attack, which took place in a crowded area near an outlet for one of Iraq's biggest privately owned mobile phone providers, AciaCell.<br /><br />On Aden Square in the north of Baghdad, two car bombs killed 12 people and injured 36 within minutes of the day's first blast.<br /><br />A senior Iraqi intelligence officer was also seriously injured when an explosive device planted in his car went off in the Salhiya district in central Baghdad.<br /><br />In central Faluja, some 60 km west of Baghdad, six people, including three Iraqi soldiers, were killed in a suicide attack, a source at the Faluja police said.<br /><br />The suicide bomber detonated a car bomb as the army patrol was driving by. That attack left 11 people injured.<br /><br />Sunday's blasts come less than a month after a series of blasts across Iraq killed some 64 people and injured 190 in late August.<br /><br />The attacks came within weeks of US President Barack Obama's decision to bring US troop numbers down to around 50,000, some three years after they peaked at around 168,000.<br /></p>
<p>The largest single attack of the day was a car bombing that killed at least 19 people in Baghdad's al-Mansour neighbourhood, in the southwest of the capital.<br /><br />Iraqi military sources said that 58 people were injured in that attack, which took place in a crowded area near an outlet for one of Iraq's biggest privately owned mobile phone providers, AciaCell.<br /><br />On Aden Square in the north of Baghdad, two car bombs killed 12 people and injured 36 within minutes of the day's first blast.<br /><br />A senior Iraqi intelligence officer was also seriously injured when an explosive device planted in his car went off in the Salhiya district in central Baghdad.<br /><br />In central Faluja, some 60 km west of Baghdad, six people, including three Iraqi soldiers, were killed in a suicide attack, a source at the Faluja police said.<br /><br />The suicide bomber detonated a car bomb as the army patrol was driving by. That attack left 11 people injured.<br /><br />Sunday's blasts come less than a month after a series of blasts across Iraq killed some 64 people and injured 190 in late August.<br /><br />The attacks came within weeks of US President Barack Obama's decision to bring US troop numbers down to around 50,000, some three years after they peaked at around 168,000.<br /></p>